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I am definitely in the minority here, but I can eat the same meal everyday for years.
Before I graduated college, I was overweight. I never got any attention from women, and all my friends thought I was nonathletic. I started waking up at 5:30AM everyday, running a few miles, and then showering before anyone else got up. But I wasn't seeing the results I wanted, because I hadn't changed my diet. So I started tracking exactly how much I was eating, and oh boy, everyone who's done that probably has a similar reaction e.g. "Holy shit I've been eating so much."
So I worked out a meal plan for myself. 500 calories of Steel-cut oatmeal in the morning, intermittent fast through lunch, then 1000 calorie dinner comprised of vegetable soup (add in some croutons and tobasco), turkey sandwiches (open faced for half the bread) with a bag of baby carrots. I use the baby carrots to help me pace the rest of the meal, basically, eat some baby carrots, then one sandwich, then some more baby carrots, then the next sandwich, then some more, then half the soup, then finish the baby carrots, finish the soup. The whole thing takes about 45 minutes to an hour to eat, and leaves me very full.
I've rotated out what kind of canned soup I use, as well as the accoutre-mount of sandwich add-ons (cheddar cheese with jalepeno vs. pepper-jack with banana pepper), but I've pretty much eaten this meal everyday since 2010.
Absolutely. I only tracked my calories for like two and a half months. A few years ago. Because of that I stopped buying nearly as much junk food, less sugary foods, less meat, switched to diet soda/flavored sparkling water etc. like oh my god, any food that involves a potato and oil has to be treated with the caution you'd give a moose.
For anyone trying to lose weight, a really good start is downloading a free calorie tracking app and track calories for just a few weeks. You don't have to change your diet, don't need to get on any plan or anything, just quantify what you're putting into your body and you'll develop a 5th sense at the grocery store for what kinds of things you need to limit.
Yup. I went years having tuna sandwiches for lunch.
It helps that I’m really uninspired by food, but if you don’t eat it you get weak and die so I relent and eat.
Hopefully that's in the past, because that's a lot of mercury you're getting having tuna daily. If not for the mercury concern I would probably do that myself though
Even in this context you're alternating between an oatmeal and a regular meal!